Catherine Rosenberg

by Jeanette Sakel
Our team were really successful at the UWE staff awards again this year, with a wide range of nominations, three staff shortlisted for awards and one winner: Catherine Rosenberg won the award for outstanding leadership / excellent people management 2014. Well done, Catherine, this is really well deserved!

The BCL has two great forthcoming events (all students, staff and interested parties welcome!):

Tomorrow, Wednesday 11. December 1-2pm in 3E24 Catherine Rosenberg is going to talk about her thesis, presenting a talk on ‘Making sculptures out of smoke’: using narrative and creative writing to develop students’ reflexivity’

Next week, Monday 16. December 2-3pm in 4E21b Meredith Marra (Victoria University Wellington) is going to present ‘Constructing equality through talk: negotiating hierarchies in the workplace’ (followed by a data workshop)

Here’s a photo of Meredith – and another photo of Petros Karatsareas, who presented at the BCL last week:

We have a new Dr amongst us – Catherine Rosenberg passed her EdD viva yesterday at Bristol University. WELL DONE x

Aspects of her work were conducted in partnership with a number of our students – especially those on her final year creative writing module. Here’s her abstract:

‘Making sculptures out of smoke’: an exploration of reflexive teaching and learning in Higher Education

‘Writing is product and process, noun and verb.’ (Colyar 2009:422)

This dissertation explores the journey taken in devising and implementing a third year undergraduate module. The journey started with the undertaking of my doctoral studies and a developing appreciation of the value of creative writing as a form of inquiry into the self and context, and the associated reflexivity involved in this process. Bringing this work to bear on the design of the module, I became aware of a shift in the teaching and learning taking place in my classes. The focus of this study is an investigation of this change in pedagogy.